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Corporate Quotes

"Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word."

Jon Postel, American Scientist

Corporate, Fans, Football, Trying

"The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers."

Ralph Nader, American Lawyer

Corporate, Washington

"In corporate levels, it's all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week?"

Ron Livingston, American Actor

Corporate, Tennis

"I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly."

James W. Black, Scottish Scientist

Corporate, Mission, Needs

"Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour."

Lance Henriksen, American Actor

Corporate, Nationalism

"Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles."

William Petersen, American Actor

Corporate, Hollywood, Theater, Want

"The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack."

Richard Stengel, American Editor

Corporate, Museums

"You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things."

Dougray Scott, Scottish Actor

Corporate, Understanding

"Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth."

Marlee Matlin, American Actress

Corporate, Hollywood, Office, Project

"The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases."

David Suzuki, Canadian Scientist

Corporate, Responsibility

"Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector."

Peter Coyote, American Actor

Corporate, Prostitution

"What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production."

Barry Commoner, American Scientist

Corporate, Production, Right

"The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests."

Ralph Nader, American Lawyer

Corporate, Liberal, Party

"And then of course, obviously as far as issues such as global warming, something has to be done on the corporate side, there has to be some mandate or some legislation."

Daryl Hannah, American Actress

Corporate, Global warming, Legislation

"I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit."

Lisa Bonet, American Actress

Corporate, Energy, Profit

"CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything."

Evan Dando, American Musician

"There's one political party in this country, and that's the corporate party."

John Hall, American Politician

Corporate, Country, Party

"Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on."

Evan Dando, American Musician

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